Dance Science and Education MSc, PgDip (ICL)

Your learning will incorporate a variety of approaches including lectures, student-led seminars, presentations, practical skills training and project work.

To earn an MSc, on completion of your course credits, you will also produce an independently researched dissertation.

Compulsory courses

• Dance Pedagogy
• Preventive Dance Medicine
• Sources of Knowledge: understanding and analysing research literature
• Conceptualising Research: Foundations, Assumptions and Praxis

Option courses

You will also choose 2-3 option courses (40 credits) from a range offered at Moray House School of Education and Sport and may include for example:

• Assessment of physical activity and body composition
• Child and adolescent development
• Education for all
• Physical activity for health
• Psychology for physical activity
• Strength and conditioning for specific populations

Additional options may be chosen from courses offered by relevant schools within the University, subject to approval by your Programme Director and Course Organiser.

The core courses are designed to be delivered in intensive blocks of study. This enables students who cannot be in Edinburgh full time due to teaching or performance commitments to complete the degree by combining the intensive blocks with online optional courses.

MSc Dance Science & Education with Teaching Qualification (TQs) pathway

To earn the Masters with TQs, you will not take any option courses, but will instead complete an additional compulsory course:

• Professional Development and Leadership in Dance Teaching

Please note that the MSc Dance Science and Education with TQs starts in August which is earlier in the academic year than the regular MSc Dance Science and Education.

Find out more about compulsory and optional courses

We link to the latest information available. Please note that this may be for a previous academic year and should be considered indicative.

The Teaching Qualification (TQs) pathway includes 18 weeks of placement experience in schools and community settings.

Whether you are a recent graduate or a mid-career professional, this programme will prepare you for further research, which can be channelled into an academic career or used to advance your performing, teaching or educational career. The transferable skills you gain, such as communication and project management, will also be valuable in enhancing any career options.

If you choose the GTCS-accredited Teaching Qualification (TQs) pathway, this degree will enable you to apply for GTCS registration and teach in schools with a subject specialism of dance across 3-18 years.

Recent graduate destinations include lecturing and teaching positions in Higher Education, teaching positions in schools, dance development officers for local authorities, research positions, further study at PhD level and physiotherapy programmes.

Students make use of excellent on-campus facilities that include St Leonard’s Land dance studio and BASES-accredited scientific research laboratories.

Because of the University's historic and well-founded reputation in Dance Education, students can access extensive and rare resources related to the field of dance and medical practice in the University's libraries.

These entry requirements are for the 2023/24 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2024/25 academic year will be published on 2 October 2023.

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in a relevant discipline.

We may also consider your application if you have relevant employment or professional experience; please contact us to check before you apply.

With your application you will be required to submit a digital portfolio evidencing your professional dance related practice. This should include, for example, footage of your own performance, your own original choreography performed by your students/dancers, or you in a teaching context.

MSc Dance Science & Education with Teaching Qualification (TQs) pathway-specific requirements

If you are applying for the MSc Dance Science and Education with TQs, in order to be eligible for provisional registration as a teacher, you must have achieved a level of competence in English and Mathematics which is approved by the GTCS upon completion of your degree. This would normally be:

• SQA Higher Grade pass at levels A, B, C (or equivalent) in English

• SQA Standard Grade (Credit Level 1 or 2) pass in Mathematics or its equivalent

Selection for the MSc Dance Science and Education with Teaching Qualification involves a professional interview.

If you are not sure of your eligibility, please contact the Programme Director or dse@ed.ac.uk to find out more about these requirements.

The Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme is also only required for students on the Teaching Qualification (TQs) pathway. Students on the general MSc Dance Science and Education programme do not require one.

Students from China

This degree is Band C.

• Postgraduate entry requirements for students from China

Protecting Vulnerable Groups

All successful applicants will be required to join Disclosure Scotland's Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme before starting the programme. In addition, all applicants who don't live in the UK, or who have spent more than a year abroad, will need to provide equivalent verification from the relevant national authority.

International qualifications

Check whether your international qualifications meet our general entry requirements:

• Entry requirements by country

English language requirements

You must demonstrate a level of English language competency at a level that will enable you to succeed in your studies, regardless of your nationality or country of residence.

English language tests

We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified:

• IELTS Academic: total 6.5 with at least 6.0 in each component.
• TOEFL-iBT (including Home Edition): total 92 with at least 20 in each component. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
• C1 Advanced (CAE) / C2 Proficiency (CPE): total 176 with at least 169 in each component.
• Trinity ISE: ISE II with distinctions in all four components.
• PTE Academic: total 62 with at least 59 in each component.

Your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the programme you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS, TOEFL, Trinity ISE or PTE, in which case it must be no more than two years old.

Degrees taught and assessed in English

We also accept an undergraduate or postgraduate degree that has been taught and assessed in English in a majority English speaking country, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration:

• UKVI list of majority English speaking countries

We also accept a degree that has been taught and assessed in English from a university on our list of approved universities in non-majority English speaking countries (non-MESC).

• Approved universities in non-MESC

If you are not a national of a majority English speaking country, then your degree must be no more than three and a half years old at the beginning of your programme of study.

Find out more about our language requirements:

• English language requirements

Moray House Country Scholarship

Moray House School of Education and Sport is pleased to offer five £10,000 scholarships to study a Master’s degree programme commencing in September 2023. These will be based on merit and available to applicants from eligible countries.

• Moray House Country Scholarship

Moray House Access Scholarship

Moray House School of Education and Sport is pleased to offer a scholarship covering tuition fees and living costs for one student. The scholarship is for UK nationals domiciled in the UK, from backgrounds or groups which are underrepresented in our School.

• Moray House Access Scholarship

(Revised 1 February 2023 to add funding opportunities)

UK government postgraduate loans

If you live in the UK, you may be able to apply for a postgraduate loan from one of the UK’s governments. The type and amount of financial support you are eligible for will depend on:

• your programme
• the duration of your studies
• your tuition fee status

Programmes studied on a part-time intermittent basis are not eligible.

• UK government and other external funding

Other funding opportunities

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